BY SHEENA FORDE-CRAIGG | SEP 29, 2022 Tourism Minister, Senator Lisa Cummins (centre) and Qatar’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Jassim bin Saif bin Ahmed Al Sulaiti (third from right), display their documents following the signing of the Air Services Agreement. Looking on are: (l-r) Secretary Air Transport Licensing Authority, Arlene Daniel; Permanent Secretary, Francine Blackman; Director of the Barbados Civil […]
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Officials broke ground on Tuesday to make way for the new Hotel Indigo on the south of the island pictured here from the Artist drawing. First Published on September 28, 2022 by Barbados Today As officials broke ground on Tuesday to make way for the new Hotel Indigo on the south of the island, Prime […]
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SEP 30, 2022 There were 34 new COVID-19 cases, 16 males and 18 females, recorded on Thursday, September 29, from the 323 tests conducted by laboratories across the island. The cases consisted of 11 persons under the age of 18, and 23 who were 18 years and older. The number of people in isolation facilities […]
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BY JULIA RAWLINS-BENTHAM | SEP 27, 2022 Critical recommendations outlined in a departmental inquiry on the Government Industrial School (GIS) are being given priority treatment by Government as it moves to reform that institution. Moving the females from the Barrows, St. Lucy facility to Dodds, St. Philip and addressing staffing issues are key among those […]
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BY JULIE CARRINGTON | SEP 27, 2022 Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley speaking at the inaugural lecture in the Kofi Annan Lecture Series in New York, recently. (PMO) Faced with the financial fallout from the cost of living, debt and climate crises, Government has unveiled its Bridgetown Agenda as a guide for urgent and decisive […]
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BY GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS | SEP 23, 2022 Barbados’ Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Dr. The Most Honourable Jerome Walcott (right), and Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Solomon Islands, Jeremiah Manele, exchange documents following the signing of a Joint Communique at the Permanent Mission of the Solomon Islands to […]
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BY GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS | SEP 26, 2022 (Stock Photo) This afternoon, if I had been asked to describe Robert “Bobby” Clarke in just a few words, I would have to say he was “a man apart”. In any grouping, Bobby stood out — not by accident or chance, but by design. In all the […]
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Barbados needs to look at the underlying factors for the increase in gun related crime, particularly among the youth. That was the message from Democratic Labour Party (DLP) member Rasheed Belgrave on Sunday during a public meeting at the corner Pine Plantation Road, Collymore Rock, St Michael. He said it was “unfair” to criticise young […]
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Noted attorney, Pan-Africanist Robert “Bobby” Clarke has died. PICTURED ABOVE at the Emancipation Rally last year August 1, 2021. ( Photo by David Crichlow – CARIBPIX.NET ) Clarke, 90, passed away yesterday after being hospitalised. During this year’s Emancipation Day celebrations, Clarke was honoured for his work with developing the Pan-Africanist movement in the 1970s, […]
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PICTURED ABOVE : Minister of Tourism Senator Lisa Cummins (second from right) was joined at the church service by (from left) Geoffrey Roach, Jens Thraenhart, Ralph Bizzy Williams, Shelly Williams and Selwyn Cambridge. Tourism Week 2022 will be celebrated in Barbados from Sunday, September 25, to Saturday, October 1, under the theme “Rethinking Tourism”. The Week began […]
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